Landmannalaugar, Iceland by Xindaan Very difficult to convey in one picture, but the one single thing next to the glacier lagoons that impressed me the most about Iceland’s wonderful nature are the mountains consisting of rhyolite or liparite, which you can find in several places, but in a very concentrated form at Landmannalaugar. If you ever get to Iceland (if you live there, you know it anywaY), get a 4WD car and head there, you will not ever regret it.
The colors you see there are just otherwordly. That’s why I chose this picture instead of a panorama shot, because the focus are the colours. This is no editing, nothing, that’s how it looks like. All around.
The highland road (we went on the F208) just opened a few days before we got there, so it was still quite empty, resulting in a great round trip hike, passing Brennisteinsalda, the “burning mountain”, a name not that far away from the truth.
I chose my Nikkor 16-85/3.5-5.6 at 65mm, f8 for this shot for optimum optical quality. The picture then got put into square format, which I found quite fitting for this scenery.
If you are interested, feel free to check out my whole Iceland set at my homepage, or rather the current state it is in. My favorites from there will get here onto flickr. Yes, I take proposals. 🙂
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